# Quote — Jane Roberts, The Nature of the Psyche

> To one extent or another, then, you learn to constantly monitor your behavior, so that it conforms to the established criteria set up for sane or rational experience. You are social creatures, as the animals are. Despite many of your cherished, erroneous beliefs, your nations exist as the result of cooperation, not competition, as do all social groupings.

- Author: [Jane Roberts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts.md)
- Book: [The Nature of the Psyche](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-nature-of-the-psyche.md)
- Page: 23
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-nature-of-the-psyche/to-one-extent

## More from this book

> The overly specific sexual orientation, then, reflects a basic division in consciousness. It not only separates a man from his own intuitions and emotions to some extent, or a woman from her own intellect, but it effectively provides a civilization in which mind and heart, fact and revelation, appear completely divorced. To some degree each person is at war with the psyche, for all of an individual’s human characteristics must be denied unless they fit in with those considered normal to the sexual identity.

p. 81 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-nature-of-the-psyche/the-overly-specific.md)

> Physically, however, the body is quite able to completely regenerate itself as it approaches old age. Indeed, a quite legitimate second puberty is possible, in which the male’s seed is youthfully strong and vital, and the woman’s womb is pliable and able to bear . . . Now, to some extent there is a connection between this innate, rarely observed second puberty and the development of cancer, in which growth is specifically apparent in an exaggerated manner.

p. 66 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-nature-of-the-psyche/physically-however-the.md)

> There are lost portions of the Bible having to do with sexuality, and with Christ’s beliefs concerning it, that were considered blasphemous and did not come down to you through history.

p. 75 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-nature-of-the-psyche/there-are-lost.md)